Charles B. Griffith

Writing

Charles B. Griffith

Born — Died

1930-09-23 — 2007-09-28

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Death Race 2000 poster
6.2

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Death Race 2000

1975

A Bucket of Blood poster
6.6

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A Bucket of Blood

1959

The Wild Angels poster
5.5

A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.

The Wild Angels

1966

Eating Raoul poster
6.4

A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall and simultaneously realize their dream of opening a restaurant.

Eating Raoul

1982

Eat My Dust poster
5.8

Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.

Eat My Dust

1976

The Little Shop of Horrors poster
6.3

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960

Film credits

Behind the camera

Death Race 2000 poster
6.2

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Death Race 2000

1975

A Bucket of Blood poster
6.6

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A Bucket of Blood

1959

The Wild Angels poster
5.5

A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.

The Wild Angels

1966

Eat My Dust poster
5.8

Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.

Eat My Dust

1976

Eat My Dust poster
5.8

Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.

Eat My Dust

1976

The Little Shop of Horrors poster
6.3

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960

Attack of the Crab Monsters poster
5.2

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

Attack of the Crab Monsters

1957

It Conquered the World poster
4.8

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.

It Conquered the World

1956

Not of This Earth poster
5.7

An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.

Not of This Earth

1957

Gunslinger poster
4.3

After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

Gunslinger

1956

A Bucket of Blood poster
5.0

Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.

A Bucket of Blood

1995

Flesh and the Spur poster
4.9

A young man searches for his brother's killer with the help of a gunfighter, a native woman and a traveling medicine man.

Flesh and the Spur

1956

Creature from the Haunted Sea poster
3.7

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Creature from the Haunted Sea

1961

Beast from Haunted Cave poster
4.5

A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.

Beast from Haunted Cave

1959

Atlas poster
3.4

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Atlas

1961

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype poster
5.2

An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

1980

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype poster
5.2

An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

1980

The Swinging Barmaids poster
4.7

A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.

The Swinging Barmaids

1975

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II poster
2.5

Three kingdoms have been overtaken by three evil lords and only Tyor, a teenage boy with magical powers, can restore peace to the land with the help of a bumbling elder, wizard and a hero in each kingdom. Tyor fights alongside them and eventually becomes a powerful wizard in his own right.

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

1989

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II poster
2.5

Three kingdoms have been overtaken by three evil lords and only Tyor, a teenage boy with magical powers, can restore peace to the land with the help of a bumbling elder, wizard and a hero in each kingdom. Tyor fights alongside them and eventually becomes a powerful wizard in his own right.

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

1989

Smokey Bites the Dust poster
2.8

Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.

Smokey Bites the Dust

1981

Up from the Depths poster
3.7

The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.

Up from the Depths

1979

Not of This Earth poster
4.3

An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.

Not of This Earth

1995

Devil's Angels poster
5.5

A gang of outlaw bikers strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a small beach town; let them stay and the town is safe. But a local girl strays into their lair and sets off a full-scale war.

Devil's Angels

1967

The Undead poster
4.5

Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.

The Undead

1957

Rock All Night poster
5.5

Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.

Rock All Night

1957

Ghost of the China Sea poster
5.4

A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way.

Ghost of the China Sea

1958

Ghost of the China Sea poster
5.4

A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way.

Ghost of the China Sea

1958

Teenage Doll poster
5.4

The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed. They blame her murder on Barbara, the on-again-off-again girlfriend of the leader of rival gang The Vandals. As the gangs prepare for a fight, we take a glimpse into their tumultuous home lives.

Teenage Doll

1957

Naked Paradise poster
4.4

Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.

Naked Paradise

1957

Forbidden Island poster
6.2

Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

Forbidden Island

1959

Forbidden Island poster
6.2

Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

Forbidden Island

1959

Forbidden Island poster
6.2

Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

Forbidden Island

1959

Ski Troop Attack poster
4.8

An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the platoon's veteran sergeant and its inexperienced lieutenant and by constant attacks by pursuing German troops.

Ski Troop Attack

1960

Hideouser and Hideouser poster
NR

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Hideouser and Hideouser

2019